The revised edition, 2026 «Across the Borderline».
This work documents an extended period of exploration within physical mediumship and séance-based phenomena. While such experiences may appear meaningful and structured, they do not in themselves establish the identity of the communicating source.
The revised edition reflects this limitation and outlines the transition from phenomenon-based observation to an identity-focused framework based on independent verification: Spirit ID.
The book is presented as an exploratory foundation — not as evidence, but as the basis for a methodological shift. This is not where identity is established — but where its limits become clear.
This section forms part of an ongoing body of work developed over many years, reflecting the experiential and exploratory dimension of communication and consciousness across perceived boundaries.
Author’s Note — Contextual Statement (2026)
Across the Borderline (2009) documents an early and exploratory phase of my survival research between 2004 and 2009. The book is a personal account of observations and impressions from a period in which I attended physical séances and witnessed phenomena I could not explain at the time. These descriptions were written exactly as they appeared to me then—before any formal methodological framework existed.
Since that time, my work has developed in a completely different direction.
Spirit ID™ is a modern, structured method based on subconscious clarity patterns, tonal and linguistic signature analysis, and a PK‑based verification protocol known as Spirit ID Duality™. It does not rely on trance, channeling, physical mediumship, ectoplasm, voice boxes, or any séance‑based format.
For this reason, the séance material in the 2009 book belongs strictly to the historical Metapsychics Research archive, and not to the Spirit ID Method™. The book should be viewed as part of a developmental journey — a period of investigation that inspired, but does not define, the modern method.
Spirit ID™ represents a methodological evolution rooted in structure, verification, documentation and replicable criteria. It stands independently of the physical phenomena described in my early work.
— Jostein Strømmen
Founder, Spirit ID™ Institute
Spirit ID Method™ (2026)
Across disciplines, moments arise where established explanatory frameworks reach their limits. In both psychology and physics, such boundary conditions have prompted a reconsideration of the assumed separation between observer and observed, mind and world.
The materials presented here are informed by this shared threshold, approaching empirical reports and historical sources not as causal proofs, but as structured expressions emerging from a deeper contextual order. This perspective serves as an orienting backdrop for the studies that follow.
Voices From Past Metapsychics Research
The following statements come from pioneers whose work shaped the scientific exploration of psychic phenomena and survival research:
“I am absolutely convinced of the fact that those who once lived on earth can and do communicate with us.
It is hardly possible to convey to the inexperienced an adequate idea of the strength and cumulative force of the evidence.”
— Sir William F. Barrett, F.R.S.
“The facts revealed necessitate the complete overthrow of the materialistic physiology and conception of the universe.”
— Dr. Gustave Geley, Institut Métapsychique International, Paris
“I tell you we do persist. Communication is possible.
I have proved that the people who communicate are who and what they say they are.
The conclusion is that survival is scientifically proved by scientific investigation.”
— Sir Oliver Lodge
“Testimony is abundant and proofs innumerable.
Decisive proofs are repeated daily.
… Cryptesthesia/telepathy, telekinesis, ectoplasms, and premonition seem to me founded on granite; that is to say, on hundreds of exact observations and hundreds of rigorous experiments.”
— Dr. Charles Richet, Nobel Laureate, author of Thirty Years of Psychical Research
MARIE CURIE PARTICIPATED IN METAPSYCHICS RESEARCH
Mme. Curie throughout her life actively promoted the use of radium to alleviate suffering and during World War I, assisted by her daughter, Irene, she personally devoted herself to this remedial work.
Throughout history, more than thirty Nobel Prize winners have shown interest in, participated in, or publicly supported research in Metapsychics.
Beyond Survival — Evidence for Reincarnation
The inquiry into life after death does not end with survival of consciousness.
A compelling body of research now explores verifiable accounts of past‑life memories in children.
One of the leading scientific institutions in this field is:
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS)
Their decades of research document cases where children provide accurate, verifiable information about lives they could not have known by ordinary means.
External link:
Children Who Report Memories of Past Lives — University of Virginia School of Medicine